Maths
At Crowton, we believe that all children can, and will, succeed in mathematics. Mathematics teaches us how to make sense of the world around us through developing a child’s ability to calculate, to reason and to solve problems. Mathematicians are able to reason, explain, work systematically and apply their mathematical knowledge to a range of situations and problems. It enables children to understand and appreciate relationships and patterns in both number and space in their everyday lives. We encourage pupils to have a positive attitude to maths and we work hard to ensure they develop strong mathematical skills and knowledge. We develop a culture where children persevere and are resilient when they are faced with challenging mathematical concepts. We foster positive ‘can do’ attitudes and we promote the fact that ‘We can all do maths!’ We believe all children can achieve in mathematics and teach for secure and deep understanding of mathematical concepts through manageable steps.
Intent
At Crowton, we enjoy maths! Maths is a skill we use daily and is an essential part of everyday life. Therefore, maths forms an important part of our broad and balanced curriculum where we endeavour to ensure that children develop an enjoyment and enthusiasm for maths that will stay with them and empower them in future life.
We intend to deliver a curriculum which:
- Allows children to be a part of creative and engaging lessons that will give them a range of opportunities to explore maths.
- Gives all children a chance to believe in themselves as mathematicians and develop the power of resilience and perseverance when faced with mathematical challenges.
- Develops all children’s fluency, providing opportunities to reason mathematically and develop using and applying skills when solving increasingly more complex problems involving a range of mathematical knowledge.
- Enables all children to be challenged and encouraged to excel in maths.
- Allows opportunities to revisit and practise basic maths skills to ensure key mathematical concepts are embedded and children are able to see the links between the topics in maths and across the wider curriculum.
- Is in line with the expectations in the National Curriculum.
Implementation
The White Rose Maths scheme is followed to create a curriculum designed to meet the needs of our children and to allow for opportunities for revisit and retention, ensuring full coverage of the national curriculum for mathematics and providing a broad and balanced spread of all areas of the curriculum. Teachers are confident to manipulate this planning in the short term in order to meet the needs of all of our children within mixed year group classes.Children, regardless of their ability, are provided with opportunities to become more fluent in their learning, to reason mathematically and to solve a range of problems. This is done using a range of sources such as White Rose Maths, Twinkl, Master the Curriculum and Primary Stars Education.
Mathematics homework is provided on a weekly basis to help embed the week’s learning and share the learning with parents/carers. Calculation practice is provided regularly through basic skills starter activities and SODA tasks to ensure children’s fluency in calculation methods is embedded.
Learning is differentiated to meet the needs of the children within the class whilst still providing each child with the opportunity to achieve the learning intentions to meet the expectations of their year group. Interventions are put in place to support children where necessary. Opportunities to collaborate in pairs or small groups are given regularly so children can learn from and support each other. Effective teacher modelling and effective assessment for learning make sure children are moved on in their learning or supported when finding it difficult. Where possible, links are made with other subjects across the curriculum.
Impact
The expected impact of our maths scheme of work is that the children will:
- Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics
- Have a range of strategies to solve mathematical questions and problems
- Develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
- Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language
- Solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and nonroutine problems with increasing sophistication
- Be able to break down problems into a series of simpler steps and preserve in seeking solutions.
- Make rich connections across mathematical ideas to develop fluency, mathematical reasoning and competence in solving increasingly sophisticated problems.
- Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Maths